Cudaminer Guide for Nvidia GPUs

Cudaminer Guide for Nvidia GPUs

CUDA Core is the term Nvidia uses to call the shaders in its GPUs. The Cudaminer is designed specifically for Nvidia GPU mining with Cuda accelerated mining application for Litecoin and Scrypt based altcoins. There would be a noticeable speed increase compared to OpenCL based miners.

Cudaminer

1. Download

2. Check your GPU

Before going into the configuration, you would want to know which GPU that you have, so that you will find out the compute version that it is using. If you are not sure, you can install GPU-Z to find out.

Also make sure that you have the latest drivers installed for your Nvidia GPU. You can check this out at Nvidia’s download section.

3. Compute version

From your Nvidia GPU model, identify the compute version that the card is using, so that you would know which kernel prefix is suitable.